HISTORY: How political myths are made*

In his new book, The Pope’s Battalions, Queensland historian Ross Fitzgerald cites historical references that paint Daniel Mannix, B.A. Santamaria and other members of the Catholic Church in Melbourne in the late 1930s as fascist sympathisers and admirers of Mussolini. Unfortunately for the credibility of the book and its author, these statements were some years ago exposed as politically-motivated defamations and, as Anthony Cappello explains, even the original source of the statements will no …

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